Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1887-03-11
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may be vouchsafed from the heavenly
source you know SO well.
GROVER CLEvELAND.
THE DOCTORS STATEMENT.
DIR. Searle makes the following verbal
statement: -,
"Mr. Beecher began to fail decidedly at
3 o'clock this morning, respiration rapid.
At o'clock the family was summoned.
Death came slowly and stealthily. Res
was reached. He still remained in the
same condition, except breathing; eyes
closed entirely; unconscious; motion of
right arm became less frequent and were
finally stopped almost entirely. About
o'clock in the morning we could
His pulse ran up still higher, fiickered and
fiuctuated until $685. Two minutes before
his death his pulse ceased almost entirely
at the wrist-so faint that it could hardly
be detected-and then stopped altogether.
There was rattling in his throat, painful to
those around him but not felt by him,
owing to failure of the nerve center and
respiratory organs, together with the fail
ure OF the hearts action. His death, which
came at $3.50, was very easy--as painless if
not as pleasant as death from suffOcatiOn
or by drowning is said to be. ,..
Mrs. Beecher bears up wonderfully
under her heavy afflictiOn. She is quite
calm and composed -'
NO GRAPE.
There will be no pail bearers; there will
be no black drapery in the church or
house, nor will the family wear mourning.
Many times has Mr.. Beecher said in his
sermons: 'Strew flowers over my grave,
but let no heathenish practice prevail Of
RI HrOr n Inr n only tN1,n nf
when a man passes through death to
eternal life.'
Biographical.
Henry Ward Beecher was born at Litch-
field, Conn.,, June "A, 1918. He was the
fourth son and the youngest but one OF
DR.. Lyman Beecher. He graduated at
Amherst college in 1884, and afterwards
studied theology at Lane seminary, Cincin-
natl, Of which his father was the president.
In 1887 he became pastor of the Presbyter-
ian church at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, and
in 1889 pastor of church at Indianapolis.
Eight years later he accepted the pastor
ate of the Plymouth Congregational
church of Brooklyn, then just organized,
where he soon took rank as one of the fore
most pulpit orators OF the country. For
long series of years he continued a most
earnest advocate of all reformatory efforts,
especially of those having in view the alb
clifton Of slavery and the promotion of
temperance.
He was one of the most popular lecturers
in the country, travelled widely both in this
country and in Europe on his lectural tours
and left scarcely no section nnvisited.
Probably no man stood higher in the esti-
nation of all classes of people than did Mr..
Beecher up to 1874, when the charges of
Immortality were brought against him by
Theodore Tilton, from which charges he
was freed both by committee Of the
church and in the civil action that required
a trial occupying fully six months, the jury
failed to agree, standing nine for acquittaI
and three for conviction upon the offense
alleged.
Mr. Beecher always took decided part
in the political movements Of the day, act
ing throughout with the republican party
up to the time of the presidential election
Of 1884, when he refused to recognize the
nomination of Mr.. Blaine and advocated
the election of President Cleveland.
His writings are very vOluminOus, and it
is said there are very few men living or
dead whose works fill so much space. He
them extempOre, and yet not without most
his sermons have been taken down
by stenographers and printed. He also
had much experience in newspaper
editing; while pastor in Indiana he edited
an agricultural journal. He was frequent
contributor to the New York Independent
frOm its establishment in 1847 and was its
chief editor from 1851 to 1868 when he re-
signed and was succeeded by his assistant,
Theodore Tilton. In 1870 he took editorial
charge of the Christian Union, religious
weekly. which position he filled ten years.
Aside from his journalistic work. he has
written dozen printed volumes besides
his Life of Christ" the second volume of
which he was hard at work upon the
he expected to have issued in June. He
was always robust man in good health.
Since 1874 his salary has been 100000
yearly to which sum it was increased from
$4,000.